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192 SIX WEEKS IN LA. CHERE PETITE BUETAG...
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« — It Was Late In The Afternoon When We...
mystery some of course dry ; , , said queer I had nothing joke live ht in be d , but long his could head enoug , not and h understan with I determined _IRene d the to know reason to play he of with had the
it , After whatever dinner it mi the g two " . servants came in and sat by the fireplace spinning , and then the old stories had hear came d it up , and Ah ! the that child forebodes ' s cry
misfortune was mentioned " said , and Jeanne I sai , d " I and I know it . mean " s that my poor boy will be drawn , for the conscrition . " The younger servant Justine ,
a lovely brown girl , with dark p eyes set in her head a little obliquely , like the Tartarscried out , _" Oh ! mother , do not talk , so , you
know the cure has , almost said that Honore wiU not be drawn , and must not talk so after what the cure has said , it is not religious ,
you and I cannotbear it . " The old lady interrupted the girl , " Hold say _yoiir any tongue thing , , about Justine her , it lover is not , " and becoming the Countess in a b , etrothed turning to bride Rene to ,
lained that her farmer's wife Jeanne , the elder woman , had brother adop exp ted and this sister Justine , but , and very that like she to and become Honore husb were and and not wife only , like but to be drawn in the
interested month alas ! all . Justine depended and said looked on " the Pardon up fatal , neither , Madame number shy , but nor you bold know , but direct it ensuing is most and
important , of all for , our father and mother , that Honore should not be drawn ; and now ? and father whatever is ill and will cannot Madame work do * who without is to
am Honore work Mere for ? as Jeann the for famil e me is , always y it is very my mother little consequence . " if I remain as I
" , Ah ! " said the old Countess , " if I could afford to buy Honore off , I would ; but you know and I have cut t like down to all do the that trees it , is but quite the
your impossible moat father trees . . " * and Mon Here cedars Dieu the ! , it good were I woman better can' Jeanne if the Bon burst Dieu out , in would vehement take
sobsand hurried from the room . The old lady was very much of grieved her , chair for her and hast hurried y words after , and to mak with e the it up hel . p of Justine got out
Hene and , I were left alone , and we looked at one another and burst out laughing . and There her was tender something anxietyand so comical her grandeur in the and old
lad her y poverty ' s hasty , speech and to me in the idea of [ Rene , , the New York merchantwith his command of thousands a year , sitting quietly
listening On , the to morrow a famil H 6116 y difficulty and I went all to to be see solved the next by £ male 100 ! representarode with Justine to nei
bouring our tive guide of the village , ( who famil , , by y healthil after the bye him y situate , . rode We like d on a a man hig , h across hill , her and horse following a , and
gh-* The only son of a widow is exempt from the conscription .
192 Six Weeks In La. Chere Petite Buetag...
192 SIX WEEKS IN LA . CHERE PETITE _BUETAGNE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 192, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/48/
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